Archive for the ‘Video Card’ Category

AnandTech Tests GPU Accelerated Flash 10.1 Prerelease

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Updated ATI and Intel acceleration results. Do you hate how painfully slow Flash video playback can be even on the fastest PCs? Adobe’s prerelease of Flash 10.1 is about to change all of that. By offloading H.264 decode onto capable GPUs, full screen, high resolution flash video is finally possible without stuttering. Even on an Atom….

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The Radeon HD 5970: Completing AMD’s Takeover of the High End GPU Market

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

With 2 Cypress chips on 1 card, today marks the day where AMD completes their takeover of the high-end video card market. It’s the fastest single card on the planet for $599, and quite overclockable out of the box. Goodbye GTX 295….

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AnandTech Tests GPU Accelerated Flash 10.1 Prerelease

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Do you hate how painfully slow Flash video playback can be even on the fastest PCs? Adobe’s prerelease of Flash 10.1 is about to change all of that. By offloading H.264 decode onto capable GPUs, full screen, high resolution flash video is finally possible without stuttering. Even on an Atom….

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NVIDIA’s Bumpy Ride: A Q4 2009 Update

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

A much delayed Fermi, pulling out of the chipset business coupled with GTX availability woes made conditions ripe for us to talk about NVIDIA. We explain what all of this means and when we can expect things to turn around for NVIDIA….

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AMD’s Radeon HD 5770 & 5750: DirectX 11 for the Mainstream Crowd

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

The next phase begins. AMD is launching the 5700 series, their mainstream line of cards based on Juniper. Do these new cards follow in the 5800 series legacy?…

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NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 220: 40nm and DX10.1 for the Low-End

Monday, October 12th, 2009

NVIDIA’s first DX10.1/40nm part finally gets a retail launch after a 3 month OEM-only stint. How does NVIDA’s latest part part stack up to the competition?…

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Gigabyte’s GTX 260 Super Overclock: A GTX 275 on the Cheap?

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

What happens when you overclock a GTX 260 Core 216 by 20%? As Gigabyte has discovered, you get a GTX 275 for less….

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AMD’s Radeon HD 5850: The Other Shoe Drops

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Hot on the heels of their launch of the 5870 last week, AMD is launching the value version, the 5850. With it, AMD has captured the high-end….

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NVIDIA’s Fermi: Architected for Tesla, 3 Billion Transistors in 2010

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Last week we saw AMD’s first DX11 GPU, today we have NVIDIA’s response: Fermi. Weighing in at 3 billion transistors with a 384-bit GDDR5 memory bus, we won’t see this beast until 2010….

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AMD’s Radeon HD 5870: Bringing About the Next Generation Of GPUs

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

At roughly twice the computing power of the RV770, the world’s first DirectX 11 GPU is here. It’s called the Radeon HD 5870 and it is, without a doubt, the high end card to get….

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